Shortly after saying an extra 220 layoffs, Bungie acknowledged that its plans for future Future content material had been unimpacted by the brutal spherical of job cuts, although a brand new report revealed by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier suggests in any other case.
Citing a number of nameless present and former Bungie workers, Schreier has claimed that Bungie is altering its content material plans for Future 2 going ahead, with annual expansions set to get replaced by smaller updates. The identical was acknowledged earlier by journalist Jeff Grubb.
With gross sales of expansions declining year-over-year – with The Last Form allegedly having offered much less at launch than final 12 months’s Lightfall – and growth prices for growing them being as exorbitant as they’re, the studio has reportedly determined to cease releasing annual expansions, and below new director Tyson Inexperienced, will now launch smaller updates for the title.
The aim will reportedly be to each retain current gamers and entice new ones, with smaller content material updates just like Into the Mild, which was launched earlier within the 12 months, being seen as the best manner ahead. Relatively than promoting these new content material updates, Bungie intends to launch them free of charge to enchantment to veteran gamers, whereas future story content material may additionally rope in characters and areas not beforehand seen within the Future universe.
As for what the longer term holds for Future past that, that a lot could be very a lot up within the air. Future 3 reportedly isn’t in growth (and by no means was), whereas it’s claimed that Bungie additionally cancelled a third-person Future spinoff codenamed Payback to as a substitute deal with the event of Marathon.
